personal information:
Professor in Public Health Research / Vice- President of the Netherlands Health Council
daan.kromhout@wur.nl
Phone number: 0317-483054
Room number: 315 Biotechnion
curriculum vitae:
Daan Kromhout is professor in Public Health Research at the Division of Human Nutrition at the Wageningen University and Vice- President of the Netherlands Health Council for the areas: Nutrition, Environment and Public Health.
Professor Kromhout was trained in Human Nutrition at Wageningen University (MSc degree in 1974 and PhD degree in 1978) and in Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A.( MPH degree in 1981). In 1977 he became assistant professor at the Institute of Social Medicine, University of Leiden, and full professor in Nutrition and Epidemiology in 1984. He served the National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) in Bilthoven from 1988- 2005 as head of the Department of Epidemiology, director of the Public Health Research Division and director of the Nutrition and Consumer Safety Division. Since 1994 he is professor in Public Health Research at Wageningen University. He was appointed as Vice-President of the Netherlands Health Council in 2005.
Kromhout's research is focused on diet, lifestyle, cardiovascular diseases and healthy aging. He is principal investigator of several national and international epidemiologic studies, such as the
* Zutphen Study, the Dutch contribution to the Seven Countries Study, on diet, lifestyle and cardiovascular diseases
* HALE project on diet, lifestyle and healthy aging
* Alpha Omega Trial on omega-3 fatty acids and cardiovascular diseases
Kromhout (co-)authored 280 peer-reviewed research articles, 200 other publications and two books about the Seven Countries Study. He was awarded several prizes e.g.:
* the silver medal of the European Society of Cardiology (1998)
* the career award of the Netherlands Federation of Medical Scientific Societies (1999)
Major publications:
1. Kromhout D, Bosschieter EB, De Lezenne Coulander C. The inverse relation between fish consumption and 20-year mortality from coronary heart disease. N Engl J Med 1985;312:1205-1209.
2. Hertog MGL, Feskens EJM, Hollman PCH, Katan MB, Kromhout D. Dietary antioxidant flavonoids and risk of coronary heart disease. The Zutphen Study. Lancet 1993;342:1007-1012.
3. Hoogen PC van den, Feskens EJ, Nagelkerke NJ, Menotti A, Nissinen A, Kromhout D, for the Seven Countries Study Research Group. The relation between blood pressure and mortality due to coronary heart disease among men in different parts of the world. N Engl J Med; 2000;342;1-8.
4. Oomen CM, Ocké MC, Feskens EJ, Erp van-Baart MA, Kok FJ, Kromhout D. Association between trans fatty acid intake and 10-year risk of coronary heart disease in the Zutphen Elderly Study: a prospective population-based study. Lancet 2001;357:746-751
5. Knoops KTB, Groot LCPGM de, Kromhout D, Perrin AE, Moreiras-Varela O, Menotti A, Staveren WA van. Mediterranean diet, lifestyle factors and 10-year mortality in elderly European men and women. JAMA 2004;292:1433-1439